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Title: Micmacs (2009)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Dany Boon | ... | Bazil | |
| André Dussollier | ... | Nicolas Thibault de Fenouillet | |
| Yolande Moreau | ... | Tambouille | |
| Dominique Pinon | ... | Fracasse | |
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Marie-Julie Baup | ... | Calculette |
| Michel Crémadès | ... | Petit Pierre | |
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Nicolas Marié | ... | François Marconi |
| Julie Ferrier | ... | La Môme Caoutchouc | |
| Omar Sy | ... | Remington | |
| Jean-Pierre Marielle | ... | Placard | |
| Urbain Cancelier | ... | Le gardien de nuit de Marconi | |
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Patrick Paroux | ... | Gerbaud |
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Jean-Pierre Becker | ... | Libarski |
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Stéphane Butet | ... | Matéo |
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Philippe Girard | ... | Gravier |
Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull, leaving him on the verge of instantaneous death. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets Slammer, a pardoned convict who introduces him to a band of eccentric junkyard dealers including Calculator, a math expert and statistician, Buster, a record-holder in human cannonball feats, Tiny Pete, an artistic craftsman of automatons, and Elastic Girl, a sassy contortionist. When chance reveals to Bazil the two weapons manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, he constructs a complex scheme for revenge that his newfound family is all too happy to help set in motion. Written by The Massie Twins
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By the director of Delicatessen and Amelie, this is closer to the earlier one. It's that mad jumble of images and daring camera-work again. And again it turns out to be a film quite unlike the one you were expecting. I'm sure someone has said this somewhere already, but it's worth repeating. I'm talking about Fellini on acid.
After an electrifying prologue in which our hero is orphaned, the screen explodes into a big-budget retro Hollywood opening and the story begins.
Almost right away our man Bazil, played by star of the French screen Danny Boon, is wounded by a stray bullet, losing his job after a long spell in hospital. He's saved from oblivion by a family of freaky misfits who live underground, surviving by rescuing the junk society throws out and giving it new life.
What Bazil really wants is to get his own back on the two arms manufacturers who messed up his life, and his new friends are the perfect mates for carrying out such a scheme. They include a human cannonball, a numbers genius, a circus contortionist and a robot inventor, and their plots are just as wacky as they are.
Talking of plots, the story, packed though it is with fantastic imagery as if it were a story about bad adults written by very clever children, races along regardless. The scene where Bazil gets shot is itself so much more than a simple zap with a bullet. It's a short film in itself, and the whole thing is full of chunks like that. It really is too much to eat at one sitting, and I would recommend a second look. You'll probably see me there, in the front row, my jaw in my lap.